Rhinoceros

These three great plays by one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the

absurd, are alive and kicking with tragedy and humour, bleakness and farce. In

Rhinoceros we are shown the innate brutality of people as everyone, except for

Berenger, turn into clumsy, unthinking rhinoceroses. The Chairs depicts the

futile struggle of two old people to convey the meaning of life to the rest of

humanity, while The Lesson is a chilling, but anarchically funny drama of

verbal domination. In these three 'antiplays' dream, nonsense and fantasy

combine to create an unsettling, bizarre view of society.